[Xpath-ng] FIXPath (XPath NG core) straw man draft posted

[Berend de Boer]

Uche Ogbuji wrote:

>I've been working on this here and there as time has allowed, but I thought it 
>was better to just get out something respectable and make the refinements 
>among the group, so I finished up a first draft of the XPath NG core this 
>weekend.
>
Section "Overview"/*

Issue: */ The merge operation is defined with location paths in mind. 
But what about reverse axes? Des this mean that a merge cannot always 
resolve to document order?

As you can walk nodes of a document in document order (whatever that 
means...), give the first node the number 1 and the next node the 
previous number + 1, it follows that every node in a document has a 
unique number (the node id) and that sorting nodes by that number gives 
you the nodes in document order.

Merging two lists, sorting them by the node id will produce the asked 
for result, so it's not an issue IMO.

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Regards,

Berend. (-: